Vehicle-shaft support



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D. EL'LSWORTH & M. ROGERS.

VEHICLE SHAFT SUPPORT.

No. 327,930. Patented Oct. 6, 1885.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DEWVITT ELLSYVORTH AND MORRIS ROGERS, OF RIVERDALE, MICHIGAN.

VEHICLE-SHAFT SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 327.930, dated October 6, 1885.

Application filed June 15, 1885. Serial No. 168,788.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, DEWITT ELLswoRTH and Monnis ROGERS, both of Riverdale, Gratiot county, Michigan, have invented a new and Improved Vehicle-Shaft Holder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of our invention is to provide a new and improved attachment for vehicleshafts, for the purpose of holding the shafts erect when the same are not in use.

The invention consists in certain improvements in that class of shaft-supporters in which a spring-catch 011 the shaft engages a lug or roller on the axle-clip, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

Figure 1 is a side view of shafts provided with our improved shaft-holder, and Fig. 2 is a front view of the same.

The shafts A, united by a cross-bar, B, are pivoted on projections G of the axle-clips D, held on the axle E. The bottom plate, F, is bent up on the rear of the axle, and on its end a rounded bead, G, is formed.

On the top edges of the shafts A springstrips H are secured, on the rear ends of which rounded beads J are formed. The shafts are swung up into a vertical position or almost vertically, and the beads J on the strips H catch on the beads G, as shown, thus locking the shafts in place.

By exerting sufficient force the shafts can be swung down, the beads J sliding over the heads G on the plates F.

The strips H can be held on the shafts by clips, as shown, or in any other suitable manner.

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To hold the shafts raised, it is only necessary to swing up the same, when the beads G J engage.

The holder can also be used on a pole.

We are aware that a prior shaft-supporter has been constructed with a spring secured to the shaft, and hooked at its free end to spring over a roller secured to an arm on the clip-securing plate; also, that the clip-plate has been provided with a beveled notch or keeper,and pivoted releasingdog below the same, for the beveled end of the spring-hook on the shaft to strike against to allow the shaft to be lowered. The end of our spring-strip H and bottom plate, F, are formed with rounded beads, and thus the releasing-latch and roller are rendered unnecessary, and at the same time a far more simple, effective, and durable supporter is afforded.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A shaft-holder consisting of plates on the axle, which plates have rounded beads, and spring-strips on the shafts, which strips have rounded beads, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. In a shaft-holder, the combination, with an axle, of the clips D, having the projections O, the clip-bars F, having the ends 136111 up and provided with rounded beads G and the strips H, secured on the shafts and having rounded beads J, substantially as herein shown and described.

DEVITT ELLSWORTH. MORRIS ROGERS.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM D. STRONG, ALBERT STRONG. 

